Nursing Homes in Murphy, NC
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 Murphy Rehabilitation & Nursing Medicare and Medicaid Location: 230 Nc Hwy 141, Murphy, North Carolina 28906 Ratings: Phone: (828) 835-7580 |
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Pfizer CEO unexpectedly retires
As the chairman of the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, Kindler was instrumental in lining up drugmaker support for this year's health care overhaul in a deal that ultimately will bring those companies more customers and sales. The industry had helped defeat the Clinton adminstration's attempt to reform health care in 1994
Researchers develop portable device to quantify capsaicin content in chili peppers
Some people love spicy food - the hotter, the better. Others go out of their way to avoid the palate-singeing burn of capsaicin, the compound that gives chili peppers their kick.
Cell Therapeutics adopts ‘Rights Plan' to protect shareholder interests
Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) announced today that on December 24, 2009, CTI's Board of Directors (the "Board of Directors") approved and adopted a Shareholder Rights Plan (the "Rights Plan") in which one preferred stock purchase right will be distributed for each common share held as of the close of business on January 7, 2010. Initially, the rights are not exercisable, and are attached to and trade with, all of the shares of CTI's common stock outstanding as of, and issued subsequent to, the record date.
University of Granada scientists create artificial human skin with dermis made of fibrin-agarose biomaterial
Scientists from the University of Granada, Spain, have generated artificial human skin by tissular engineering basing on agarose-fibrin biomaterial. The artificial skin was grafted onto mice, and optimal development, maturation and functionality results were obtained.
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